Around 200 Somali pirates are reported to have renounced piracy at a meeting in northern Somalia.
Members of the group met local leaders and Somali expatriates in Eyl, in the autonomous region of Puntland, and promised to halt their activities.
Pirate representative Abshir Abdullah told the BBC he urged other groups to free ships in [...]
NEW YORK — A Somali teenager whose role in the commandeering of an American cargo ship thrust him into the international spotlight has been indicted on multiple piracy charges, authorities said Tuesday.
Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse _ the only pirate to survive the siege _ has been jailed in Manhattan since he was captured on April 12 [...]
MADRID (AFP) — Spain handed over to Kenyan authorities Saturday 13 alleged Somali pirates its navy had been holding in the Indian Ocean, the defence ministry said, putting an end to a judicial row.
The Spanish naval supply ship Marques de la Ensenada had delivered the men in the Kenyan port of Mombasa at 0800 GMT, [...]